I’ve seen multiple statements from people that Pascal was a better language than C, but I absolutely love the VHS/BETA-Max analogy (it contains a lot of context which usually take a good deal longer to write out in the pascal vs c discussions). My education and experience effectively skipped Pascal, other than mentions that it existed. So, do you have any off the cuff reading or materials that demonstrate where Pascal shines? I’d be interesting to see if any of Pascal’s qualities that made it ‘better than C’ were ripe for plucking out and putting in another language.

I haven't used Pascal in 20 years. I learned it in cs/AP cs (literally the last year it was on the apcs exam), used it for my high school science fair project and in my senior year I self taught and rewrote it to c++ and never went back.

Looked at Eiffel for a hot sec in college but it never stuck, because no toolchain for beos, which I used in college.

These days I program in elixir, and am learning Zig.